Christmas Shopping - Where Are You At?

[Gingersnap]

Mr. Snaps obviously had all his done and wrapped before Halloween. It's disappointing being married to a guy like that.

I only have booze and food-type things to get at this point. Nothing is wrapped, of course.

How about you?

[Adam]

We brothers have exactly one Christmas present to obtain: one for out father and stepmother. Every year, it takes some creative thinking, but we always come up with something.

I have no kids, I have no wife, I have no pets, so I have no Christmas shopping. At least from the shopping aspect of that, I'm very happy in that regard.

[Gingersnap]

We brothers have exactly one Christmas present to obtain: one for out father and stepmother. Every year, it takes some creative thinking, but we always come up with something.

I have no kids, I have no wife, I have no pets, so I have no Christmas shopping. At least from the shopping aspect of that, I'm very happy in that regard.

What? No friends? No nieces, nephews, colleagues, neighbors? I did stop myself from buying a friend's dog a present but it was kinda hard. She's a good friend and the dog is BFF with the boy Sheltie.

[Adam]

What? No friends? No nieces, nephews, colleagues, neighbors? I did stop myself from buying a friend's dog a present but it was kinda hard. She's a good friend and the dog is BFF with the boy Sheltie.

In our family, counting nieces and nephews and cousins gets close to the triple-digit mark. Even in the "immediate" family, counting cousins means 37 (I think). That's just ridiculous for most of us. I'm the youngest of four, spread across ten years, and all of my brothers started breeding far younger. So almost all of the immediate nieces and nephews are in their teenage years. I'm not about to go out and get iPods for eleven nieces and nephews. We made a pack ages ago that we weren't going to do gifts between aunts and uncles and nieces and nephews. It just gets ridiculously expensive for everyone involved in no time.

When it comes to friends, neighbors, and colleagues, if I gift at all, I do things that aren't shopping: cookies that I've made or brownies or something like that. I don't really like doing Christmas gifts amongst people who aren't family because it gets rather weird, at least to me. In the office, we have a sort of "office pot-luck" of munchies, such that none of us ever goes hungry for even a moment between mid-December and New Year's Day, if not later.





It's just always been more of a "spirit" thing to me. I actually don't even like getting Christmas gifts, to be honest. I feel really bad if someone else thinks that they need to be "reciprocal gift." I also SERIOUSLY don't like it when I'm put into that situation.

[Frostbit]

Same old BS game of buying a case of wine and distributing it at work. Then getting some bottle of BS wine from everybody else at work. Love to opt out. Joyce and I aren't giving each other anything other than time this year.

[scott]

The shopping for the kids is mostly done, fewer but more expensive items this year. Melanie already has her present, a 55" 3D TV for the bedroom. I'll get some last minute bracelet or set of earrings in a couple of weeks, I usually take a day and cruise the jewelry stores with higher end estate items.

I have no idea what to get for my Dad, he's selling his house and moving to a sailboat so he is downsizing on "stuff." Each year our siblings pick names out of a hat and that's the one couple we have so I've still got to do that. We don't do nieces and nephews, I have 18 of them.

[phillygirl]

I started last weekend, got one nephew halfway done and a few pick up things for my mom...then everything went to crap with my mom so nothing has been done at all this week. I will probably order most of the kids's stuff online at this point when I have some time to breathe. For now, it looks like Christmas is going to be all about trying to get my mom out of the hospital.

[Lanie]

We brothers have exactly one Christmas present to obtain: one for out father and stepmother. Every year, it takes some creative thinking, but we always come up with something.

I have no kids, I have no wife, I have no pets, so I have no Christmas shopping. At least from the shopping aspect of that, I'm very happy in that regard.

Awwwww. You have me as a friend, so go get me a present.

I don't think I'm completely there yet, but I'm about to be simply because I can't afford too much more. I've already gotten my sister, mom, and niece something.

[Michele]

I started last weekend, got one nephew halfway done and a few pick up things for my mom...then everything went to crap with my mom so nothing has been done at all this week. I will probably order most of the kids's stuff online at this point when I have some time to breathe. For now, it looks like Christmas is going to be all about trying to get my mom out of the hospital.

I wished I could somehow live closer to you for about a week and help you through the gifting thing..I'm very good at that. But in the long run, you're doing exactly what you should be doing..putting everything on hold while you give to your mom..that's going to be your best gift ever.

[Michele]

All gifts bought..I just have to wrap some and send them on their way.

Yesterday I shopped for whatever ingredients I didn't have for my baking that goes to our friends here and my family in other states.